Events




  • Melbourne Memorial Lecture : Over to you

    Sep 27 2023

    The Greek Cultural Center of Melbourne proposes a John Berger Memorial Lecture every year. Yves in Quincy and Isaac in Melbourne will read OVER TO YOU extracts. Multigenerational and worldwide dialogue, to make resonate John and Yves’ post card chat.John and Yves Berger OVER TO YOU is already available in French, Korean, Turkish and Spanish, in English in 2024.
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  • MELBOURNE MEMORIAL LECTURE: Behrouz Boochani and Hoda Afshar

    Dec 07 2022

    The Greek Cultural Center of Melbourne proposes a John Berger Memorial Lecture every year. They invite Behrouz Boochani and Hoda Afshar.Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian born journalist, author, academic and former refugee. Hoda Afshar is an Iranian documentary photographer, based in Melbourne. She is known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Behrouz Boochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Is…
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  • The Shape Of A Pocket events

    Apr 04 2024

    To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf and Tina Grace launch a series of bi-annual The Shape Of A Pocket events to share John Berger’s world and his different commitments. This name is inspired by John Berger’s book of essays The Shape of a Pocket, published in 2001, including the text “Against the Great Defeat of the World” mentioning a piece of the puzzle which « has the shape of a pocket, and consists of all …
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  • Into Their Labours meeting

    Apr 25 2024

    In 1973, John Berger set up in Quincy in Giffre Valley to immerse himself into peasant world to write his trilogy Into Their Labours. The three books have been progressively published in french but the trilogy has been published for the first time in french only in 2024 by Éditions Héros Limite. 
    The 25th of April 2024, the Geneva publisher Alain Berset came to Giffre valley, at écomusée du Clos Parchet abo…
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  • Japan Screenings: Four Seasons in Quincy

    Mar 14 2025

    Thanks to Sungwon Kim, translator of A Seventh Man (1975) published by blkswn publishing in 2024, Theatre Image Forum Shibuya proposes screenings of The Seasons in Quincy: Four portraits of John Berger, documentary directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth, produced by the Derek Jarman Lab and the University of Pittsburgh.
    From 24th of May 2025 in Tokyo for at least 4 weeks.
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  • Lecture: Over To You

    Nov 15 2024

    Yves Berger and Ariane Gülich joined Point Reyes Books, Californian bookshop, via Zoom on 15th of November 2024 for a reading and conversation about Over to You: Letters Between a Father and Son (2024, Pantheon), a book of correspondence between Yves Berger and his father John Berger.
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    2025, Ariane and Yves portraits by each other © John Berger Estate
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  • Hackney Museum: Night of celebration

    Nov 05 2024

    John Berger was born on 5th of November 1926 in Stoke Newington, Hackney district of London. On Tuesday 5th of November 2024, Hackney Museum organised a night of celebration with Ken Worpole, Farrukh Dhondy and Tom Overton.
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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.